OF ORES AND COALS. rat 



The lead-mine at Shihlen was very rich till of late years. It 

 now gives employment to feveral hands > and has two fubtcrrcne 

 engines to carry off the water. 



The lead-mine at Falloivfeld was exceedingly rich for many 

 years, till it was drowned. It is called by the miners, the old 

 man, who always mention its internal wealth with rapture. It 

 was lately opened, and a fire-engine erected. It gives employ- 

 ment to about eighty men. 



There is a lead-mine now working near Shilden, reputed rich 

 in ore, difcovered by a meer accident, by a countryman's Humb- 

 ling upon a piece of ore lying at the very day. 



There are other veins of ore in that neighbourhood, but not 

 of confequence enough to be particularly mentioned. 



There was formerly a le.ad-mine in Rothbury-foKft, the ore in 

 fmall lumps, enclofed in a white talcy ftone. 



There was alfo another on the brow of a hill by the brook 

 above Stonecraft, near Satlingftones ; the ore in the fame kind of 

 ftone, of which I have gathered feveral fpecimens, both on the 

 ihore and in the bottom of the rivulet. 



Another was opened fome years ago at Sharply, near 

 by Sir Lancelot Allgood> of Nunivick, Knt. the ore good, but not 

 in fufficient quantities to continue working it. 



A firing, or fmall vein, was lately difcovered in the middle of 

 the villa of Little Houghton ; the ore lodged in coarfe fpar, talc, 

 and ordinary marcafite, found near the day ; in good cflecm, 



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